Improvement in faucets



tcted @States ALVIN DAVIS PUFFER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent N o. 104,880, dated June 28, 1870. 5

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The Schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

l 'o all to whom these presents shall come:

Be it known that I, ALVIN VDAVIS Pmrrnn, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hare made an invention of a new and useful Oonstructionof Faucets; and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, due reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a front elevation,

Figure 2 a vertical and transverse section, and

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of a faucet, embodying my improved construction- Y Figure 4 being a view of the gate of such faucet 4detached from its body.

This invention relates to a novel and highly useful construction of La mnltitubnlar liquid-faucet for sodaibnntains, or other uses, whereby I not only secure a compact and simple form, but prevent a liquid of one flavor or nature from contact with a different one, a marked peculiarity of the invention being the creation of two or more passages or ports through the plug or gate of the faucet, to coincide and communicate, atpropei times, with a like number of ducts formed within the body of the faucet, by which means different liquids possess an individual channel from the source of supply to the discharging-outlet.

The invention consists ,in the employlnent of a multitubular cylinder, the interior channels or conduits of which connect, atl their inner ends, with the tanks containing the various flavoring-sirups, withy which many, if not most, soda-fbnntains are now provided, the outer extremity of said cylinder being formed with an eccentrically-arranged offset or chamber, which surrounds the tapering plug or gate, constituting part of the faucet, this offset being formed with a number of channels, which constitute prolongations or continuations of those within the cylinder first named, the gate above referred to being, in turn, formed with orifices or ports corresponding in number with that of the oliset, the arrangement of these ports being such asV to open communication between the channels of' said offset and of the` cylinder and the discharging-outlet of the faucet, the whole arranged and operating as hereinafter explained.

The accompanying drawing represents, at A, -a straight cylinder o1` tube, the outer periphery thereof, for a portion of its length, being provided with a male screw, for properly securing it in place.

The cylinder A is multitubular, that is to say, it is produced with two or more channels, a a, extending longitudinally through it, such channels being connected with two or more branch-pipes, b b, which extend to a like number of tanks or vessels, which contain the various Havering-sirups now found with all soda-fountains.

The cylinder A is formed with a dischurging-ontlef,

c, near its outer end, while opposite such orifice, and partially surrounding the tapering plug or gate, which is shown at d, will be seen. an integral eccentrically arranged enlargement or boss, e, this enlargement being formed with a number of channels, ff, coinciding with, and constituting part of, the vchannels a a before mentioned, the purpose ofthe enlargement e being to enable sirups or liquids tol gain access to the outside of the gate, and, through one or the other of its ports, as the case may be, to the discli-.n'ging-outlet c'before alluded to. y

Although the accompanying drawing represents the channels aa and qi f as only two in number, it

will doubtless be apparent that the number of these channels may and will be. increased to correspond with the number of the sirups contained within the body of the fountain, it being understood that the plug or gate (l, which, in the present instance, is a twolway77 one, is to be formed withva number of cross-passages or ports, Ii t, corresponding to those of the offset e, the channels a a, as well asthe ports f f, being arranged at regular and coinciding intervals.

he plug or gate d may be turned into such a position as to entirely close at once all the ports ff,

or it may be turned into such a position as to present any one of its ports to the neighboring or proper channel f, which will permit vsirup to flow through such channel to, and be discharged through, the outletport, the disposition and extent of each'port of the plug being such as to extend from one of said channels to such outlet.

As each channel or conduit j' f coincides alone with some one of the ports of the gate which constitutes a continuation thereof, it results that but one liquid can ever come incoutact with such channel and port, thus obviating one great objection to the present construction of soda-fountains, which exists from the fact that all the sirups pass through, at some point in their flow, a single passage, thus causing-a small portion of the sirup, which may be last drawn, to be taken up with the next, and, by so doing, change or injure its flavor. s

As the channels for passage of sirup are contained within a4 single pipe, an ornamental appearance is imparted to the faucet, which the' numerous branch-pi pes now impair.

- Claim.

I claim thc combination of the mnltitubularplpe A with the channeled enlargement e and the gated, under the arrangemet and for operation as herein shown and sct forth.

AININ DAVIS PUFFER.

Witnesses:

FRED. Cunris, E. Gmrrrrn. 

